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In the context of supervised learning, meta learning uses features, metadata and other information to learn about the difficulty, behavior, or composition of the problem. Using this knowledge can be useful to contextualize classifier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Brandon Oselio , Alfred O. Hero

Bounding the best achievable error probability for binary classification problems is relevant to many applications including machine learning, signal processing, and information theory. Many bounds on the Bayes binary classification error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Morteza Noshad , Kevin R. Moon , Alfred O. Hero

The Bayes Error Rate (BER) is the fundamental limit on the achievable generalizable classification accuracy of any machine learning model due to inherent uncertainty within the data. BER estimators offer insight into the difficulty of any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

We propose a new splitting criterion for a meta-learning approach to multiclass classifier design that adaptively merges the classes into a tree-structured hierarchy of increasingly difficult binary classification problems. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Gerrit J. J. van den Burg , Alfred O. Hero

Meta learning uses information from base learners (e.g. classifiers or estimators) as well as information about the learning problem to improve upon the performance of a single base learner. For example, the Bayes error rate of a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Kevin R. Moon , Veronique Delouille , Alfred O. Hero

This paper proposes a novel meta-learning based hyper-parameter optimization framework for wireless network traffic prediction (NTP) models. The primary objective is to accumulate and leverage the acquired hyper-parameter optimization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liangzhi Wang , Jie Zhang , Yuan Gao , Jiliang Zhang , Guiyi Wei , Haibo Zhou , Bin Zhuge , Zitian Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the statistical convergence rate of a Bayesian low-rank tensor estimator. Our problem setting is the regression problem where a tensor structure underlying the data is estimated. This problem setting occurs in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-14 Taiji Suzuki

We address the problem of learning to benchmark the best achievable classifier performance. In this problem the objective is to establish statistically consistent estimates of the Bayes misclassification error rate without having to learn a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Morteza Noshad , Li Xu , Alfred Hero

In this paper, we propose a sparse signal estimation algorithm that is suitable for many wireless communication systems, especially for the future millimeter wave and underwater communication systems. This algorithm is not only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Chongwen Huang , Lei Liu , Chau Yuen

Henze-Penrose divergence is a non-parametric divergence measure that can be used to estimate a bound on the Bayes error in a binary classification problem. In this paper, we show that a cross-match statistic based on optimal weighted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Brandon Oselio , Alfred O. Hero

Nearly all model algorithms used in machine learning use two different sets of parameters: the training parameters and the meta-parameters (hyperparameters). While the training parameters are learned during the training phase, the values of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Razvan Andonie , Adrian-Catalin Florea

The weighted nearest neighbors (WNN) estimator has been popularly used as a flexible and easy-to-implement nonparametric tool for mean regression estimation. The bagging technique is an elegant way to form WNN estimators with weights…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Emre Demirkaya , Yingying Fan , Lan Gao , Jinchi Lv , Patrick Vossler , Jingbo Wang

Nearest neighbor is a popular class of classification methods with many desirable properties. For a large data set which cannot be loaded into the memory of a single machine due to computation, communication, privacy, or ownership…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Xingye Qiao , Jiexin Duan , Guang Cheng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve optimal approximation and estimation error rates (in minimax sense) in several function classes. However, previous analyzed optimal CNNs are unrealistically wide and difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-15 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) method is a simple and popular statistical method for classification and regression. For both classification and regression problems, existing works have shown that, if the distribution of the feature vector has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Puning Zhao , Lifeng Lai

We study approximation and learning capacities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with one-side zero-padding and multiple channels. Our first result proves a new approximation bound for CNNs with certain constraint on the weights. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunfei Yang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou

The Bayes error rate (BER) is a fundamental concept in machine learning that quantifies the best possible accuracy any classifier can achieve on a fixed probability distribution. Despite years of research on building estimators of lower and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Cedric Renggli , Luka Rimanic , Nora Hollenstein , Ce Zhang

The problem of estimation of density functionals like entropy and mutual information has received much attention in the statistics and information theory communities. A large class of estimators of functionals of the probability density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Kumar Sricharan , Dennis Wei , Alfred O. Hero

The k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm is a cornerstone of non-parametric classification in artificial intelligence, yet its deployment in large-scale applications is persistently constrained by the computational trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jiaye Li , Gang Chen , Hang Xu , Shichao Zhang

$k$-nearest neighbour ($k$-NN) is one of the simplest and most widely-used methods for supervised classification, that predicts a query's label by taking weighted ratio of observed labels of $k$ objects nearest to the query. The weights and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-12 Akifumi Okuno , Hidetoshi Shimodaira
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